Month: September 2023

De Marco L1, Major K1 1Commonwealth Ombudsman, Canberra, Australia Contract cheating. Plagiarism. Collusion. Fabrication. Recycling work. Exam cheating. Use of generative AI. Education providers have their work cut out for them when it comes to educating students about academic dishonesty,...

De Marco L1, Major K1 1Commonwealth Ombudsman, Canberra, Australia In November 2022, the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman published an issues paper titled ‘Improving fairness in written agreements between international students and Australian education providers’. Based on its experience dealing...

Kalsi S According to the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (2022), suicide is the leading cause of death among Australians aged 15 – 44. Notably, student suicide has has emerged as a pressing global challenge (Universities UK & Papyrus,...

Chazal N2, Halliday M1 1Acrath, 2University of South Australia ACRATH, Flinders University and the University of South Australia have been awarded a federal government to create a micro-credential for university students raising awareness of modern slavery. The aim is threefold:...

Nerlich S1 1Australian Government Department Of Education, Canberra , Australia The Australian Government’s Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching initiative incorporates the Student Experience Survey which captures responses from both domestic and international higher education students about their study experience....

Jackson T Overview Tomorrow is Mine is a student experience podcast. To date 118 episodes with students of 49 different nationalities have been featured during the series. Its name was inspired by Malcom X: ‘Education is the passport to the...

Hollings Nasr S1 1Arizona State University How one becomes globally competent is widely debated, as is the notion of global competence itself. Some argue that such ideologies must be “caught, not taught” (Thompson, 1998, p. 287) while others argue it...

Vergara A1 1Navitas, Sydney, Australia As a Student Learning Advisor, my role requires me to design and deliver academic writing support that helps students complete their written assessments such as essays and reports. One of the purposes that our academic...

Shields H1 1Edified, Melbourne, Australia, 2i-Graduate, Melbourne, Australia The International Student Barometer (ISB) is a well-established method of evaluating and measuring international student satisfaction across a range of areas from the arrival and ongoing learning experience to social wellbeing.  Benchmarked...

Gomes C1 1RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia In 2022, the Contact Points Website, with its sharable social media tiles, was launched to assist international students navigate how and where to get help when faced with unforeseen emergencies. Each sharable tile contains...